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Jason Althofer BA (Hons)

Jayson Althofer is an independent researcher and a part-time worker at Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery, where he curates exhibitions showcasing the Lionel Lindsay Gallery and Library Collection’s holdings of historic artworks, manuscripts, books and maps.

 He is working on two large research projects. (1) An annotated anthology of colonialist approaches to and consumerist appropriation of indigenous body modification techniques in Australasia. Eucalypt 3 (2004), a journal of Australian Studies published by the Australian Studies Centre at Barcelona University, carries his article on Western representations of Aboriginal cicatrisation and skin colour, ‘Caesar in New Britannia: Tattooing the Cross on White Australia’.

 (2) A study of Norman Lindsay’s aesthetic ideology and commercial art practice, particularly his contributions to ‘The Society of the Spectacle’ (Guy Debord) in Australia. Jayson presented “Embattled and Entrenched Art: Lionel and Norman Lindsay’s Cultural Struggles during the First World War” at the War and Citizenship in 20th Century Australia Symposium (National Museum of Australia, Canberra, 3 July 2004) and ‘“From the military school of life”: On Norman Lindsay’s Use and Abuse of Nietzsche for War’ at the War and Memory Symposium (Cobb & Co Museum, Toowoomba, 12 August 2005).